The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-20
THE PElliEt fIlRY RING
IHAF is Trying TO DRFRAUD
MISSISSIPPI
Ont OF $4,000 History That
is Bisgraceful to That
State.

R,ookhavep Leader: With i'll ieigued
ignorance the BodKdoa Republican
asks u, TO name some Of the men con-
stiiu Jog the ring which is trying TO
deffsud the State our OF $4,000 IN
the isce If the public record, no editor
who isn't a plant tool TO ths ring, or
an nj ndJi able ignoramus would ask
such n QUESTION. We vii slate a Few
rhetorical facts AID let the Republican
AID the public Judge for the mselves
VIII TIE men and their abb tors ere
wEo are engaged in defraudlng tho
Sta's.
Daring the heat If the Gubernato.
rial contest OF 1885, when Lowry's
chances for renomiua ion were wsv-
ering in the balsDce n. @. FsirDsp, |
OF the Jackson Lantern, pub ished an
article charging that the lessees If
the peuiten iory were behind in their
&C GUMS with the State many ihous-
and dollars ard that Lowry was re-
sponsible for the d Ii qoeDcy. The
showing made by FGmaG wss as the
explosion OF q miE:ty iv66 ana for Il
time the Lowry hosts sts ggered under
It. However, IN & o,Taonal csrd,
besripg Date of july 81, 1885, Jones
). Hsailtou aud James A. Hoekins
| came 10 the g. vernlr'r retCue. They
o. nounced FairmsB 81 a "gantoD,
mai CT us aud miserable liar and
scound,e" end undertook 10 prove
HAY they bad settled al. iber indebt-
ednses 20 the Stste mp to Dec mbsr,
1884, Emb Hi,d IN this card # Ham
lion and Hltkins were cert ticstee
from sx.At'orney General Cstchitg e,
Snpsfinr' udrnt Of tho panitentiary,
I. j. MtQnston and Ger. Writ Ad-
ans, certifying to tbe rare I. ct, and
3sfyre the denuO Liation aud such en-
array # political iltluoIcs Fa'iman
was driven TO the wsll.
All this tive tie Governor, a much
interested party, was mum. hut lime
rolled on, and wben his Exceliercy
hal BAN reelected AID was sffs ia
the Gnbernatorial chair for q second
tenn, IN his official massage to the
Leg, laturs OF 1885 (see message OF
that date, hs bubspniGy fave the
lie 10 .he card of Hamilton aud Hos
kins OF the prec ding July, together
with the false certificates oil Ca cuihgs,
Adams and INCLUSION, and tells the
Legislature that the lEsse9s did no.
settle their indebtedness IN 1884, IL
December IT that year, ss claimed IL
!, thsir card, hut mode said settlement
|, Dtcember q, 1885, five months. after
: their falee sta ement had been pub
lisned, and he repeated the benefi Ia
a g. showed in his biennial mes5sg'
Of January, 1885, that no settlement
had & made for the $3.50, APO due II
I, 1885, aud no 8 element for tnat yea
' or toe veal 1886 has been made since
making the al omit row due the Stat
; by the leesets $3.50. Ne5 only hsv,
they failed TO pay this blood moaey
but they are Low trying to deirsuI
the State olt OF 1t altogether on tech
nicalities, and the suit 30 long la II
tuted by the Attorney General o.
. their band Ia dragging along in tn
court.
u But this is rot Ill OF the penitentlsr
. rott nness. The p~eniientiary stenC
. log committee of the Sc ste ia 1886, {
u which Senator B one was Chairman
u h owed taat 80 far as the lsseees hay
ing settled everything mp to Docen
:, beT, 1884. az claimed in their card d.
:, nouncug F irman, tue settlement thi
" was made for that year in ID .cembe
j., 1885, embraced unfinished contrsc
for thoutands of dollars Ia 9TH
~ words, that the lessees settled in ID,
~ c-mber, 1885, for WI at they were dr
ON their le, 30 for 1894, and in that SO
{ ement GOT credits ..tOr work tn
~, padn' been Compl ted when the Lee
IL allure was ia 8 ssion in 1896, M
some OF tae work wis roi even b.gu
A. d the il not ali. The same cor
us mittte, and another special commit,
of h. Senate, showed that the co
I tracts on which the leesee3 hi
VI detained credits in their settleme
with the State, ani which contraC
had been approved By the Cove nj
w ,mNreced Over G. q gee, exceedil
-, $40 on, makir g a total OF about o.
90 altogether tnis penitentisIy ri
DN has drfrauded the State out oil, instei
T.. OF $4,000 rs We frs put 1t.
Thrse ere I cts tina teve never be
~ told by thu Brandon Republican, t
"a Vicksbu Y Herald, theJ cRs)n Ctdric
the Grenada Sentinel, NatchtZ Len
Graf and a few Il, er boot licking
'i.h pers that sing the praite s Of the ri
s in sea on and out If season; and |
auo ecu 4 he is exposed and held up
public ex ,craiion wss why they b
u the ring hates Roderick Gambrell &
but the facts are none the less la
Is on that account, and may
~ vsrlf. by spy person for hi
se'f WHO will Rad Hamilt
aud Hutkin's card published in
' = Clarion 10 ] ly, 1884 the Governc
mrsssg of ia uary, 1885, the repo
's oi III s ma Q STANDING Committee
~ Penitentisry and Prison, and
l., special Committee, of which Sens
Tbrasher, of Ulsiborne, was cbairm'
~ together with Attorney:GeneIal h
ler's published sJatemsn, OF last y
In reference t. Ct l%essee's bond.
II any # the ripg want to assaI
h'n nate he editor of this paper as Il
l. did Roderick Gambrell for calling
tent,on e. these facts, lei them do
but let hem It the same time unc
stand that tneir co wardly and blot